Flora of North America species comparison

several to many, erect to ascending, unbranched, sometimes branched near base, hairs spreading, long, soft, eglandular, mixed with dense, short stipitate-glandular ones.

few to many, ascending to erect, unbranched, hairs dense, appressed-ascending, matted, long, soft, branched, eglandular, ± white-woolly, obscuring surface.

green, narrowly to broadly lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 9–35 cm, not fleshy, margins wavy, involute, 0(–3)-lobed, distal sometimes 3-lobed, apex narrowly acuminate;

lobes ascending or spreading, linear to lanceolate, apex acute to obtuse.

gray-green with hairs, surface green to purple, linear-lanceolate, 0.5–2 cm, not fleshy, margins plane, ± involute, 0(–3)-lobed, apex acute to acuminate, sometimes rounded;

lobes sometimes divergent, spreading-ascending, narrowly linear, apex acute.

3–9(–18) × 2–3 cm;

bracts green to pale green to rarely dull purplish brown throughout, distally rarely with pale yellow apices, narrowly lanceolate to narrowly elliptic to sometimes broadly lanceolate, 3-lobed, wavy-margined;

lobes spreading or ascending, narrowly lanceolate, medium length, arising at or above mid length, sometimes wavy-margined, apex obtuse to acute.

3–8 × 1–2 cm;

bracts purple, lavender, pinkish, or dusty red throughout, sometimes greenish throughout or proximally greenish, distally colored as above, obscured by hairs, lanceolate, 3(–5)-lobed;

lobes ascending to erect, linear to oblanceolate, short, arising near or above mid length, apex obtuse.

conspicuously decurved distally, 18–22 mm;

tube 11–14 mm;

beak exserted, adaxially green to yellow-green or yellow, 6–8 mm;

abaxial lip green, reduced, fleshy, included, 1.5–2 mm, 25% as long as beak, sparsely hairy, hairs spreading;

teeth ascending, green, 0.5–1 mm.

straight, 15–20 mm;

tube 8–9 mm;

beak included to slightly exserted, adaxially purple or pink, 3.9–5 mm, densely puberulent with white, woolly hairs;

abaxial lip deep purple, inconspicuous, pouched, pouches shallow, 3–5 mm, 80–100% as long as beak;

teeth upright-ascending, reduced, appearing white, 1.5–2 mm.

green or yellowish green, 15–19 mm;

abaxial and adaxial clefts 9–11 mm, 60% of calyx length, deeper than laterals, lateral 3.5–7 mm, 15–25% of calyx length;

lobes broadly or narrowly triangular, taller than wide, apex acute to obtuse.

colored as bracts, 11–18 mm;

abaxial and adaxial clefts 3.5–6 mm, 33–50% of calyx length, all 4 clefts subequal, lateral 4–6 mm, 33–50% of calyx length;

lobes linear, apex acute.